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catherine wacha, william shakespeare , bill white - Hamlet Possessed

from Hamlet by Bill White

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one of the themes running throughout Hamlet is the conflict between the
Catholicism of King Hamlet and Protestantism of his son, the prince.
This is fully illustrated in this scene in which Hamlet delays the killing of
Claudius because he does not see it fit to send the villain to heaven. As a
Protestant, Hamlet would have rejected such a belief as absurd, so it it his
inner father's voice that intercedes in the assassination. As Hamlet is.
in part, a ghost story.I decided the best way to illustrate this split would be
to divide the monologuw into two voices, the voice of the prince
and the voice of his father, who possesses him. I did both voices without
any effects except for putting an echo on the father's voice

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Now he is praying
, And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven.
And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.
A villain kills my father; and for that
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
But in our circumstance and course of thought,
‘Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged,
To take him in the purging of his soul,
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?
No.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed,
At game, a-swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in’t —
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
And that his soul may be as damned and black
As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays.
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.

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from Hamlet, released September 25, 2022
catherine wacha, music
william shakespeare text
bill white recitation

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